On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Shaun McCance<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, SzG wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Yes I agree, there is a built-in solution for each use case. But I'm so >> extremely lazy that I preferred working day and night on my "go" script >> instead of having to memorize a few hotkeys. But now it's paradise! >> >> One remark: typing "foo" in a terminal will start the GTK application >> "foo", but you will have 2 problems: >> >> * your terminal gets blocked while "foo" is running >> * closing your terminal will kill "foo" >> >> But "go foo" will do the job perfectly. > > So will "foo&". I don't want to rain on your parade, because > this seems like a neat project. But it seems to me that the > reason the "start" command on Windows needs to handle programs > is that it's hard to launch programs otherwise. It's a solution > for a problem that we don't have.
Not only. It's also a solution to problems like "What program do I use to open PDFs again? PDF... PDF... XPDF? No, this is Gnome. Guess I have to mouse through the main menu... Oh of course! Evince - how could I forget? evince mydocument.pdf." Similar problems exist for ps, all image types, html, "office" document formats, and even text. Why do I have to think about what program to use, when >90% of the cases all I want to do with a PDF document is to display it with the default PDF viewer? Similarly for office documents, etc. Philip _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
